Sentences with phrase «less need for drugs»

It is encouraging to see pioneers like Dr. Jim Gordon, of the Center for Mind - Body Medicine and Georgetown University in Washington, DC, promote this transformation of health care, as we move away from a central focus on drugs and surgery at the core with self - care and CAM techniques at the periphery to a central focus on self - care, with prevention and wellness as a focus and thus less need for drugs and surgery.

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Either you need to take more of the drugs those nice doctors prescribe for you or read the koran less.
Parents who do have a baby in bed with them for even part of the night must never smoke or use substances, such as alcohol or drugs (including prescription drugs that make you sleep heavily), that may impair arousal, making them less aware of their baby's needs or position in the bed.
«During my tenure as Governor, I have held the line on the rate of cost escalation for health care providers and managed care plans; implemented reimbursement reforms to right - size hospital inpatient reimbursement; made investments in critically needed, less costly outpatient and primary care services; and implemented measures to make New York Medicaid a smarter purchaser of prescription drugs and transportation services for patients.
Placebos are, however, less good news for clinical researchers, drug developers and the like, who need to be able to disentangle the physical actions of «real» interventions from...
«Given that only one new drug has been approved for lupus patients in the last 50 years, there is a pressing need for more specific and less toxic drugs to treat it and other autoimmune disorders,» says Means, who is an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Even if a lesser severity of perinatal asphyxia is accounted for, cooling therapy has increased the number of healthy survivors and there are very few children with epilepsy needing drug treatment.
For decades, transplant experts have observed that liver transplant recipients often need less anti-rejection medication, known as immunosuppressive drugs, than recipients of other solid organs.
«The therapeutic doses are less than a nanogram per kilogram of body weight - compared to milligram - per - kilogram concentrations needed for most pharmaceutical drugs
Patients who received a drug - eluting stent did, as expected, have less need for a second revascularization procedure, but not to the level surgeons might have expected, Bonaa said.
«The data, particularly for low back pain, seems to show the longer you're on it the less effective it is, and the more of the drug you need to get an effect,» Michna said.
A 2013 study in the Journal of Internal Medicine found that people with plaque psoriasis who used SSRIs, a type of antidepressant drug, were less likely to need additional, stronger psoriasis treatments after taking the SSRI for six months.
Today, the Food and Drug Administration has endorsed PDCAAS - method for food labeling in the U.S. Applicable to humans, the PDCAAS is patterned after the amino - acid needs of 2 - 5 year old humans, since this group matches or exceeds amino - acid requirements for older children and adults (who require less than infants).
Finally, the supplements partisans accuse the pharmaceutical industry and mainstream medicine of being greedy, out for the big bucks, and eager to cover up miracle drugs that would end disease and, in consequence, eliminate the need for their own less effective drugs.
Additionally, nutraceuticals (supplements) like chondroprotectants (joint supplements), omega fatty acids (fish, flax seed, or other oils), and anti-oxidants having minimal potential for side effects can improve tissue health so that less frequent or smaller doses of drugs are needed.
They could help your dog to regain movement and feel less pain without the need for prescription drugs.
Health Canada's reclassification of the levonorgestrel «morning - after pill» as a nonprescription drug, thus permitting pharmacists to dispense this postcoital oral contraceptive directly to women who need it, when they need it, is welcome news (see page 861).1 Less welcome is the «behind the counter» classification of levonorgestrel 0.75 mg (Plan B) by the provinces, which makes consultation with a pharmacist mandatory for any woman seeking to avoid an unintended pregnancy in this way.
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